Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1908 — His Qualifications. [ARTICLE]

His Qualifications.

I am reminded, says a writer, of the little boy who applied for a job at a squire’s house, where he could earn 5 shillings a week by making himself generally useful. Squire—Can you clean silver? Boy—Yes, sir. “Can y?u cook and light fires and sing and 1 dust old china and make beds?” 4 “Oh, yee, sir.*' “Can you clean bicycles and repair punctured tires and tune pianos?" “Certainly, sir.” ’“Can yon mend electric bells and do plumbing and gas fitting, teach modern and ancient languages, geography and the ode of the globes?" “I can, and also do anything else that is required.” “Then I think yod will do.” Boy—Thank you, sir. By the way, is your house built on a clay soil? Squire—Well, it happens that it la. But what has that to do with It? “Well, I thought you would like me to fill up my spare time by making bricks.” He waa not engaged for his insolence.—London Answers.